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Hi-tech embankment fails to stop flood, Gogoi orders probe [1]

Two weeks after a much-hyped embankment constructed with the application of a geo-fabric technology failed to prevent the Brahmaputra from flooding Lakhimpur district, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday ordered a high-level inquiry into alleged anomalies in the Rs 100-crore contract that was awarded to a Malaysian company.

Publication Date: 
13/07/2009
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Brahmaputra [3], Natural Disasters [4], Malaysia [5], Assam [6], Lakhimpur (D) [7]
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